Posted on 03/10/2019 6:19:49 AM PDT by gattaca
...Ed lived on the streets of Manchester, Glasgow, and London for two months. One night in Glasgow he saw 26 volunteers give food to two homeless people. He put on weight as passers-by gave him fast food, burgers, and sandwiches.
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Even at $1000 a day, its not worth it to sleep on the street in winter. And then there’s the problem of reliving yourself. Ick..
You can’t put a price on dignity.
I was in Psych a few times after traumatic brain injury.
Homeless people came and went the few weeks I was there.
They made between 100 and 200 a day in Manhattan..
The most I ever heard of one person spending was a woman who took a homeless guy to a clothing store and spent about 400 bucks on him.
My first reaction was to call her a liberal idiot and a sucker.
But it was her money to do what she wanted with and there’s worse ways to spend it.
I’d say half the homeless i met were mentally ill and half were in there because of addictions.
In interviews with several “homeless” people here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA last year a local tv reporter found they averaged about $80,000 a year including welfare and other perks. ALL TAX FREE!!!
At any given time, close to half the country has no dignity. They say that loud and clear by voting for free stuff over an opportunity to work.
So go to San Francisco. The city gubmint there has designated areas of the city where it is okay to piss and shit on the street.
And begging seemed to be more lucrative than I ever imagined. “
Sherlock Holmes, IFIRC, The Man With The Twisted Lip. Old story.
I remember that episode, the old ones with Jeremy Brett, my favorite.
It’s been a SCAM from day 1, and it STILL shocks me how few even know it.
I remember the “Will Work for Food” signs showing up in the late 1980s. Not one at a time, but INSTANTLY, throughout the country. Remember, this was the 1980s, no Internet, no phones to speak of for the homeless, maybe they’ll see a newspaper once a week, in other words, virtually NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATION.
Yet all of them, AT ONCE, figured out that revenues skyrocketed by simply saying that you’re willing to work.
OBVIOUSLY there was some big-time organizing involved with these people on the streets (puppet masters)...it wasn’t just individuals who were ‘down on their luck’.
There was an expose’ on TV a few years ago that showed a “homeless” woman driving her new car to a spot and then walking a couple of blocks away to panhandle on the street...After a few hours, she walked back to her car and drove to her very nice two bedroom condo...
The TV people stopped her and she did an interview...She claimed she panhandled between 80 and 100 thousand dollars each year and paid no taxes...
At night, you go to the parking garage and get into your Mercedes (or any other car of your choice) and go home. As for needing to go - repeat above.
You neither go nor sleep on the streets. Perhaps it would be convenient to rent a room in a nearby 4 star hotel or even the penthouse suit.
At a minimum of $62,400 tax free a year you could do very well for the equivalent of over $90,000 (before taxes) in some office job with all that goes with it.
You see the allure?
I wonder how the IRS feels about that.
That’s probably small potatoes to what some rich libs get away with, but they probably weren’t too happy...
I think it was a USSC ruling. Anyways, it is considered a TAX FREE gift under the IRS exclusionary gift tax rule, not earned income (w2/1099).
They can receive it tax free up to $15,000.00 from any one individual every year...they just keep getting it $5-10 at a time from different individuals.
Federally, and income wise, it is legit....State/muni code on loitering/panhandling? Different story.
The one cardboard sign I believed said “My blood alcohol level is getting low; need more beer”.
Here in my hometown there's a certain intersection that on any given day has two guys working it, one of them black and the other one white.
Each of them live in modest, small domiciles within walking distance, and they both are out on their station eight hours a day for most of the year, and they are both generally harmless.
I haven't talked to either of them but I figure they both make good money, in addition to whatever government handouts they get...
Who's the dummy in this picture?
There were panhandlers near UNC-Greensboro who were rich high school kids who just did it for a good. They pretended to be homeless because they were kicked out of the house for being gay or liberal or whatever.
Most of them aren’t homeless. At the end of the day, they get in their late model automobile which is parked blocks away, or they get picked up by someone else, and go home, which is a real home.
Back in the late 40s before TV, my Dad would occassionally bring home reels of 8mm film to play on the kitchen window shade...mostly cartoons. One I remember had a skit of a “blind” beggar selling pencils on the street. Suddenly a looooong, chauffeur driven limo would pull to the curb in front of him. He would pack up his kit, enter the limo and be driven away.
There is nothing new under the sun.
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